Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...September in which he had challenged Russia to a "peace race," but feel he is being hampered in implementing many of his plans by political pressures on the right. Another majorphase of the demonstration was articulation of public support for the thrust of Kennedy's foreign policy to counteract such conservative influence. Many carried placards with quotations from his speeches such as "Neither Red nor Dead but alive and free" and "Let us call a truce to terror." One said "We support your words. Now give us a chance to support your actions...
...years the U.S. has managed to counteract the Security Council veto, at least in part, through its majorities in the General Assembly. It has been clear for some time that the rush of the new African members into the U.N. would reduce or destroy those majorities. Some of these new members are volatile, hypnotized by the archaic fear of colonialism, and easily susceptible to Communist influence. As in the Goa case, many of them act blindly on a double standard, ready to condemn the West, rarely ready to criticize their own friends or the Communists. Does this mean, as some...
...trip will "try to counteract Democratic publicity about Harvard," Alberg said...
Strengths and weaknesses, however, are opposite sides of the same coin. Qualities of personal integrity and moral conscience are not enough to counteract the sub-rational and even sub-human forces of the modern world. There is something depressing in reading the record of Welles' career: highly praised but abortive plans for peace conferences in 1939, polite missions to the Axis leaders, "lucid and well-informed" reports on the Munich crisis. It is a kind of tragic record of the death throes of personal diplomacy. A man of wit, fore-night, honor, and good-will was totally incapable of deflecting...
...only "minimal results," because they can offer no positive antidote to unemployment and tenement housing. Nor in any of the three cities has there been the necessary citywide reaction against violence. Worst of all, as summer wears on and interracial ugliness increases, there is no practical way to counteract the crudest antagonist stalking the dark city streets. Said Chicago Police Sergeant Thomas Marriner last week: "Our real enemy is rumor...